CVE-2016-9260: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to handling of .nessus files.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: up to and including 6.8.1

Published 2017-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.